Nairobi - Somali pirates on Wednesday seized a Danish-owned container ship with 21 American crew members on board, a regional maritime offficial said Wednesday.
Andrew Mwangura of the East African Seafarers' Association said that the 17,000-ton vessel, operated by an American company, was seized in the Indian Ocean.
"There are 21 American crew members on board, and they are all safe," he told German Press Agency dpa.
Nairobi - Hundreds of thousands of civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo are still displaced and suffering abuse and hunger as a result of an operation targeting Hutu militia, the British arm of Oxfam said Tuesday.
Rwandan and Congolese troops joined forces in January to target the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) - an armed group created by Hutu militia who took part in Rwanda's 1994 genocide.
Nairobi - Kenya's Justice Minister Martha Karua resigned on Monday, citing frustrations over the pace of reforms.
Karua was angry that President Mwai Kibaki appointed seven judges without informing her.
She said her position was now untenable and that she was being prevented from reforming the judicial system.
The resignation comes as Kenya's grand coalition - which was formed last March to end violence brought about by dispute election - looks on the verge of falling apart.
Nairobi/Abuja - Nigeria's government is mulling an amnesty for rebels agitating for independence in the country's delta region.
The rebel groups have greatly reduced the West African country's oil output with their frequent attacks on oil pipelines and kidnapping of foreign workers.
The proposed amnesty, which was discussed by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua with members of his People's Democratic Party, is one idea for bringing the rebels back into mainstream society.
Nairobi - Authorities in Kenya plan to offer around 2.5 million orphaned children a "normal" life, by removing them out of institutions and placing them with relatives, reports said Wednesday.
The government was working on a programme aimed at eliminating the need for children to grow up in orphanages by linking the orphans and their relatives, The Standard newspaper said.
Nairobi - Sunday should have been a day of celebration for the tens of thousands of Ivorians who flocked to the Houphouet-Boigny stadium in Abidjan to see their hero, Chelsea's Didier Drogba, score twice in Ivory Coast's 5-0 route of Malawi in a World Cup qualifier.
Yet before the game had even begun, 22 football fans were dead and over 100 injured in a crush that came after a wall collapsed beneath a mass of bodies - a disaster all the more tragic for its commonality in the African game.
Nairobi - Somali pirates on Wednesday seized a Danish-owned container ship with 21 American crew members on board, a regional maritime offficial said Wednesday.
Nairobi - Hundreds of thousands of civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo are still displaced and suffering abuse and hunger as a result of an operation targeting Hutu militia, the British arm of Oxfam said Tuesday.
Nairobi - Kenya's Justice Minister Martha Karua resigned on Monday, citing frustrations over the pace of reforms.
Nairobi/Abuja - Nigeria's government is mulling an amnesty for rebels agitating for independence in the country's delta region.
Nairobi - Sunday should have been a day of celebration for the tens of thousands of Ivorians who flocked to the Houphouet-Boigny stadium in Abidjan to see their hero, Chelsea's Didier Drogba, score twice in Ivory Coast's 5-0 route of Malawi in a World Cup qualifier.
